Curious facts

Attended Parklane Academy, a private school in McComb, Mississippi until October 1994. She was on the girls basketball team.

Studied at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School.

First Solo Artist ever to have a number one Album and Single on the Billboard Charts at the same time with a Debut.

Caused a stir with the American Family Association by posing in her underwear on the cover of Rolling Stone. [1999]

Ended up as the youngest cast member of "MMC" (1989)

Britney's flesh-colored outfit at the MTV Video Music Awards created a stir, as it made her look scantily clad.

Requested that writers change the lyrics of her song "Born to Make You Happy." The original version contained sexually explicit lyrics, and Britney felt she was too young to be singing it.

Her video for "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" features Britney doing a love scene with a 23-year old male model. The original cut contained material so sexually explicit that her mother Lynne Spears ordered that some parts of the video be edited for content before its release to the public in the spring of 2001.

During the concert "Rock in Rio" in Brazil, a tape recorder caught Britney swearing on a microphone she wasn't aware was connected. She was complaining about the fact that they weren't playing a vamp before she was to go on stage.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) complained to her about the use of four caged cheetahs and a snake for her performance at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, claiming that animals trained for performances are mistreated during the training.

She was the big winner at the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards held in Dublin, winning the awards for Best Female, Best Pop, Best Breakthrough Artist, and Best Song for her hit "...Baby One More Time."

She was a aerobic instructor at the gym her parents owned.

She is tied with Melissa Gilbert for being the youngest person to accept a Walk of Fame star.

Fan of Björk.

Has British ancestry on her mother's side of her family.

The other understudy for her off-Broadway role in "Ruthless" was now famous actress Natalie Portman.

Shoe size is 6.

Is the first woman to have four albums go straight to number one on the American charts.

Had emergency arthroscopic surgery after she injured her knee an the set of her music video "Outrageous"

Her wedding dress was designed by 'Monique L'Huillier' .

Has a tattoo of a small black-winged fairy on the back of her spine.

Her perfume "Curious" was one of the best selling fragances of 2004.

Won her first Grammy for Best Dance Recording for "Toxic" in February 2005.

In her "Baby One More Time" music video, her love interest is played by her cousin.

The school scenes in her "Baby One More Time" music video were filmed in the same place the movie Grease (1978) was shot.

Shares her birthday with Nelly Furtado, Lucy Liu and Gianni Versace.

She wrote her song "Someday" 2 weeks before she found out she was pregnant

Elected junior high most beautiful in 1996 and 1997.

Her ex-husband Kevin Federline was background dancer for her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake.

Loves Betsey Johnson, Bebe, A/X by Giorgio Armani, Rampage, Abercombie & Fitch, Fred Segal, Gap, Victoria's Secret, and Urban Outfitters.

Accompanied Colin Farrell to the S.W.A.T. (2003) US-premiere